Definitions for puerile

Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; juvenile; childish.

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Citations for puerile

And, in one of the most puerile episodes of his adult career, he punishes his old schoolmates for being rich and vulgar by breaking into their houses to soak the labels off their boasted wine collections.Thomas R. Edwards, New York Times

Political argument is becoming a puerile cartoon about the moral . . . doing battle with the immoral.George F. Will, Washington Post